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A Deadly Child-Welfare Policy

Updated March 24, 2000 1:51 a.m. ET

Give Kay Hymowitz and her colleagues at the Manhattan Institute credit for chutzpah. Having provided the philosophical underpinning for the approach used by Rudy Giuliani to wreck child welfare in their own city, they now propose that everyone else buy into the same nonsense, as witnessed by Ms. Hymowitz's commentary on the school shooting in Michigan ("This Family Shouldn't Have Been Saved ," editorial page, March 3).

For years, the Institute blamed every death of every child "known to the system" in...